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Boiled Leg of Corned Pork

A large leg of corned pork is boiled in cold water for three hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Boiled Leg of Corned Pork

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the leg of corned pork in a large pot and cover it with cold water.

  2. Bring the water to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 3 hours.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Corned pork leg
Is the main ingredient; the long simmer tenderizes its connective tissue and softens the meat.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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